Tawarada Station
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Tawarada Station
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| Location | Tawarada 1630, Kimitsu-shi, Chiba-ken 292-0455 Japan | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 35°18′53.01″N 140°3′40.24″E / 35.3147250°N 140.0611778°E / 35.3147250; 140.0611778 | ||||||||||
| Operated by |  JR East | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | ■ Kururi Line | ||||||||||
| Distance | 21.0 km from Kisarazu | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
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| Status | Unstaffed | ||||||||||
| Website | Official website | ||||||||||
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| Opened | July 10, 1921 | ||||||||||
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| FY2006 | 64 daily | ||||||||||
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Tawarada Station (俵田駅, Tawarada-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Kimitsu, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Tawarada Station is a station on the Kururi Line, and is located 21.0 km from the terminus of the line at Kisarazu Station.
The station consists of a single side platform serving bidirectional traffic. The platform is short, and can only handle trains with a length of three carriages or less. The station is unattended.
| 1 | ■ Kururi Line | For Kisarazu Kazusa-Kameyama |
Tawarada Station was opened on July 10, 1921 as a station on the Chiba Prefectural Railways Kururi Line. The line was nationalized into the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) on September 1, 1923. The JGR became the Japan National Railways (JNR) after World War II. The station was absorbed into the JR East network upon the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987. The original station building was destroyed in a fire on January 3, 2008, and a new structure was completed in 2009.
In fiscal 2006, the station was used by an average of 64 passengers daily.[1]
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